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Do people at google actually work 11-4 like it says in the article?
by war1025 6y ago
Do people at google actually work 11-4 like it says in the article?
- enable_if 6y agoYes
- HelloNurse 6y agoParticularly demotivated people, or regular employees with 11-4 equity?
- paulgb 6y agoI wouldn't be surprised if some people get away with it, especially if they reach a certain specialization in a core codebase and are okay letting their career coast. It is not "the common paradigm" as stated in the article (at least, it wasn't in the NYC office 2014-2016).
- silentsea90 6y agoPeople who coast might. People who are vying for a promotion or good rating absolutely work much harder than that. Google keeps a high bar for talent, and such talent isn't the kind that is satisfied with chilling at work. Google is notorious for making it hard to get a promotion - you wouldn't hear that complaint from coasters :) Painting all Googlers in the same brush is one of the following: 1) Ignorant and immature, if coming from a place of ignorance 2) Malicious if intended to show big companies in a bad light to attract ambitious young people
- daxfohl 6y agoWhen I interviewed there, the parking lot was full at 9:45 so.
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- jldugger 6y agoYea, but the parking lots are always full. Can't build office space fast enough to keep up with the demand for headcount.
- compiler-guy 6y ago[also posted above] Google is a giant company, so surely somewhere there are some people who behave this way—-among a hundred thousand employees and hundreds of groups you will find at little bit of everything. But in the groups I have worked for, solid full days are the norm, and somewhat rarely you have to really dig in and work a bit more, and even more rarely, you have so much slack that you can go hone early. But generally people nearly always put in full days.